Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), the lead counsel to embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has cried out over the activities of scammers whom he claims have been using his name on social media to solicit funds allegedly for the case of the Biafran agitator.
Ozekhome, in a statement on Saturday, said he was forced to raise the alarm following calls and messages he has been getting from concerned Nigerians over the various fund raising activities being perpetrated online.
Ozekhome stated that he had nothing to do with those conducting the fundraising and described them as “unscrupulous societal miscreants and criminal elements latching on Kanu’s situation to fraudulently raise funds using his name.
“The general public is hereby alerted that I, as the lead counsel for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader and founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra, or my chambers, have never and will never in any way authorise anyone, whether as an…